The Union Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDDDC AEEEFDDDF AGGGHIIIH JJJKCCCK| I | A |
| Three in one but one in three | B |
| God who girt her with the sea | B |
| Bade our Commonweal to be | B |
| Nought if now not one | C |
| Though fraud and fear would sever | D |
| The bond assured for ever | D |
| Their shameful strength shall never | D |
| Undo what heaven has done | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| South and North and West and East | E |
| Watch the ravens flock to feast | E |
| Dense as round some death struck beast | E |
| Black as night is black | F |
| Stand fast as faith together | D |
| In stress of treacherous weather | D |
| When hounds and wolves break tether | D |
| And Treason guides the pack | F |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Lovelier than thy seas are strong | G |
| Glorious Ireland sword and song | G |
| Gird and crown thee none may wrong | G |
| Save thy sons alone | H |
| The sea that laughs around us | I |
| Hath sundered not but bound us | I |
| The sun's first rising found us | I |
| Throned on its equal throne | H |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| North and South and East and West | J |
| All true hearts that wish thee best | J |
| Beat one tune and own one quest | J |
| Staunch and sure as steel | K |
| God guard from dark disunion | C |
| Our threefold State's communion | C |
| God save the loyal Union | C |
| The royal Commonweal | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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